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Nikola Tesla in a black-and-white image, seated to the left and looking down as he writes, in a chair in the middle of a large room where a large apparatus at left and in the foreground has a spherical object at its top that is emitting electric bolts, which arc across the room to a tallow, narrow, second apparatus at far right
Nikola Tesla

This physicist and electrical engineer was a great pioneer of the use of alternating-current electricity.

Black-and-white image of Marie Curie in a laboratory, standing behind a chair near a table at center-left that has scientific equipment on it
Marie Curie

Curie was awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of radium and polonium.

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Cornelia Bargmann in a room and shown at center wearing a white coat and a black shirt, looking to her right and speaking to a woman at her right, who appears to the left in the image
Cornelia Bargmann

This Benjamin Franklin Medal winner in Life Sciences made major contributions to neurobiology.

Shu Chien seated in an office and visible from the chest up, wearing a suite jacket, tie, and a white collared shirt, with framed documents behind him mounted on the wall
Shu Chien

This award-winning mechanical engineer increased our understanding of the physics of blood flow.

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